THE ARTIST STUDIO RETROSPECTIVE

photos©Sailko Francis Bacon Studio Parnell Square, Dublin, Ireland

Francis Bacon was born in Dublin in 1909, to English parents. He lived in both London and Berlin, before a spell in Paris inspired him to become an artist. On returning to London in the 1930s, he worked briefly in furniture design but in 1944 found fame as a painter with the critical success of 'Three Studies for Figures at the Base of a Crucifixion'.

In 1998, some years after his death the Dublin City Gallery - The Hugh Lane acquired Bacon's London studio. Over 7,000 objects from the original artist's studio were found, logged and painstakingly transferred, and the space was formally opened to the public in 2001 - a rare example of a studio being completely transplanted from one city to another.

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Lecture by Hugh Lane Gallery Director Barbara Dawson on Francis Bacon: The Secret Life of an Artists Studio photo©Sailko